Quoting mthawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[LDD's seven-day-long "day":]
> You are not . We had a short raging debate on this much earlier on....
I can imagine, and wouldn't dream of revisiting it. The hard-won
agreement you outline, however, is _unrelated_ to my point: I merely
pointed out that the description as it stands has ended up being mildly
confusing. There's probably no good remedy for this year's go-'round --
but we'll have to expect questions about _which_ day it is.
In light of which, I very much enjoyed der.hans's remark about "Linux Demo
Days".
> YES . Do not advertise the competition even if we were windows centric .
> Still people are trying to convert rather than bring new people into the
> computing world the right way .
Perhaps my point was unclear: I wasn't talking about whether you
"advertise the competition". I was pointing out that one highlight's
Linux's strengths by emphasising what it does uniquely, or does
especially well -- not what it can do that's as close as possible to MS
Windows.
>> 7. (Throughout the Web site:) You have "web" in lower case. However,
>> it's short for "World-Wide Web", and is a proper noun.
>
> Is it ?
Yes. It's a specific Web, not just any web. _Names_, i.e., proper
nouns, start with capital letters in English. There are smiths, and
there are Smiths. The former are people who work at smithies, and the
latter are those with a particular surname.
<sigh> The above is tantamount to defining "proper" in its English-
usage context. Apologies for driving the point into the ground, but I
honestly don't see any ambiguity, here.
> Many words are getting 'proper' status because they are being used to
> mean one thing in particular but this is a result of advertising and
> marketing people influening very recent english. It is also the reason
> the word Windows is a trademark even though I have twenty of them in
> my house that are older than M$ by about 40 years.
That is irrelevant to my point: We are not speaking of just a web,
but specifically of the Web: That's it's name. Ergo, proper noun,
ergo leading capital letter.
Another nitpick I just noticed:
>> 17. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/mail.shtml:) "It is meant for
>> those that are not interested in the ongoing dicussions...."
^
Skipped a letter, there.
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